[opensuse] Power off problem
Hey SuSE guys/girls, Anyone have any luck in finding the problem causing 10.2 not to power down the machine? As a couple of others here have had happen, I too installed 10.2, but it will not power off the computer. It will "shutdown", but not power off as with earlier versions. It's a reasonably new mobo of which I've never had a problem with before with any of the versions of SUSE since 7.2. The acpi is rock solid, has always worked except for the present build. Kernel? Something else? I remember seeing some errors during bootup about loading some kernel modules, but don't remember what they were. It's a test machine, so I'm not close to it presently. It does appear to be a bug though. I'm suspecting some new support for a new acpi version which caused loss of support for previous versions or just a buggy kernel? Just a thought. bye, Lee ============ Ok, answering my own email. Maybe this will help others, maybe not. It seems that either the kernel or SUSE's kernel or SUSE in general is using more of the computer's BIOS settings than before. I decided to try an experiment by changing the BIOS setting of "ACPI aware OS?" to yes. It has always been no until 10.2, because basically Linux pays very little attention to BIOS settings. Doesn't seem to be the case now, because making this change makes the computer power off normally. bye -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Saturday 2006-12-16 at 11:08 -0500, BandiPat wrote:
Anyone have any luck in finding the problem causing 10.2 not to power down the machine? As a couple of others here have had happen, I too installed 10.2, but it will not power off the computer. It will "shutdown", but not power off as with earlier versions. It's a reasonably new mobo of which I've never had a problem with before with any of the versions of SUSE since 7.2. The acpi is rock solid, has always worked except for the present build. Kernel? Something else?
I had a similar problem with 7.something, time ago. It would not power off, I had to wait half a year for the next version to solve the problem. It worked previously, and it worked later.
I remember seeing some errors during bootup about loading some kernel modules, but don't remember what they were.
You should check them. They should be in /var/log/boot.something.
Ok, answering my own email.
I was going to say that you sent it twice :-P
Maybe this will help others, maybe not. It seems that either the kernel or SUSE's kernel or SUSE in general is using more of the computer's BIOS settings than before.
I decided to try an experiment by changing the BIOS setting of "ACPI aware OS?" to yes. It has always been no until 10.2, because basically Linux pays very little attention to BIOS settings. Doesn't seem to be the case now, because making this change makes the computer power off normally.
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El Sábado, 16 de Diciembre de 2006 17:08, BandiPat escribió:
Hey SuSE guys/girls,
Anyone have any luck in finding the problem causing 10.2 not to power down the machine? As a couple of others here have had happen, I too installed 10.2, but it will not power off the computer. It will "shutdown", but not power off as with earlier versions.
I think that there is a bug report in bugzilla: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=221667 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 December 2006 12:08 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Anyone have any luck in finding the problem causing 10.2 not to power down the machine? As a couple of others here have had happen, I too installed 10.2, but it will not power off the computer. It will "shutdown", but not power off as with earlier versions. It's a reasonably new mobo of which I've never had a problem with before with any of the versions of SUSE since 7.2. The acpi is rock solid, has always worked except for the present build. Kernel? Something else?
Hi, Check /etc/init.d/halt. In order to power off your machine "halt -p" needs to run. There's a conditional statement in the script to assign a value for the $command variable (which is the halt command indeed) but the switches may vary based on some conditions. If you check "man halt" you'll find the -p switch there. I have SUSE 10.0 and I can send you my /etc/init.d/halt if you want. HTH, Jorge -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Saturday 16 December 2006 12:08 pm, BandiPat wrote:
Anyone have any luck in finding the problem causing 10.2 not to power down the machine? As a couple of others here have had happen, I too installed 10.2, but it will not power off the computer. It will "shutdown", but not power off as with earlier versions. It's a reasonably new mobo of which I've never had a problem with before with any of the versions of SUSE since 7.2. The acpi is rock solid, has always worked except for the present build. Kernel? Something else?
Hi,
Check /etc/init.d/halt. In order to power off your machine "halt -p" needs to run. There's a conditional statement in the script to assign a value for the $command variable (which is the halt command indeed) but the switches may vary based on some conditions. If you check "man halt" you'll find the -p switch there.
I have SUSE 10.0 and I can send you my /etc/init.d/halt if you want.
HTH, Jorge ============== Jorge, I'll double check that to be sure, but I think all that is good. As I mentioned, changing the ACPI bios setting seems to have things working again, but I've never had to do that before. At the moment, I'm
On Saturday 16 December 2006 14:18, Jorge Fábregas wrote: pointing my finger at other things, but for now I'll leave the setting at "yes". Thanks for the suggestion. bye -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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